SCADA-Based Reliability Evaluation

Kelmarsh Wind Farm - 12.3 MW

Author

Jorge A. Thomas

Published

April 23, 2025

Kelmarsh Wind Farm

Project Overview

“Kelmarsh comprises six 2.05MW Senvion MM92 turbines. The Project was acquired from EON in December 2014 and was constructed in joint venture with Santander using balance sheet finance. Construction was completed in April 2016. It is now owned by Cubico Investments.”

(a) Kelmarsh Wind Farm

(b) Senvion MM92 turbine
Figure 1: Kelmarsh Wind Farm is located near Haselbach, Northamptonshire, UK.

Events Catalogue and Status

IEC category Warning Stop Communication Informational Curtailment
Full Performance 1461 0 0 227877 0
Out of Environmental Specification 0 93 0 90500 0
Technical Standby 0 3094 0 56248 0
None 2320 21 744 168 0
Requested Shutdown 0 77 0 0 0
Forced outage 403 892 0 0 0
Scheduled Maintenance 0 818 0 0 0
Partial Performance 9 0 0 0 37
Out of Electrical Specification 0 371 0 0 0
Note: Only "Forced outage" events with status "Stop" are considered for the evaluation, i.e., 892 events.

Reliability Parameters

Time / State Diagrams

Histogram of Failure Causes

Total

Per Wind Turbine

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